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Rick Jelliffe writes: > Certainly it is the expectation of some people that the entities > for special characters will disappear with XML, that people will > use NCRs. I am not sure about it. I think that Rick makes a good point here (we touched on this point earlier in a different context). There are two problems: 1. some XML documents will *always* need characters not available through Unicode either directly or through composition, no matter how large Unicode grows; and 2. representing new characters through numeric references in the private-use area is unintuitive. Internal SDATA entities were (and are) the bane of people trying to write generic SGML processing software, but they were very useful for small utilities tied closely to a specific SGML application (such as an academic project for transcribing manuscripts, where you knew in advance what SDATA entities you were going to see). On the other hand, there were actually proposals back in th'old days to use Unicode values for SDATA strings rather than the (in)famous "[eacute]" type strings. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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